Abstract

MALLARDI, Manuel W. Lukács on the work category: implications and ontological foundations  of the social beign. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.21, pp.337-345. ISSN 1514-6871.

This work presents the main analytical categories developed by Lukács in relation to work as the foundation of the social being. Heir to Marx´s thought, Lukács recovers the consciousness as the center of the working process and proposes that, from the ideal construction, man determines the necessary actions that give peculiarity to the mentioned process. This way, based on the implementation of teleologically determined actions, the social being sets in motion a causal series that produces the passage from the animal to the human. Subsequently, the characteristics that the previous ideation and the process of objectification-externalization acquire in the relation of the social being with nature and social reproduction and the implications of work as the foundation of the rest of social beings practices are analysed in close relation.

Keywords : Lukács; Work; Ontology; Teleology.